After a duke's betrayal, the resilient Sarah Forrester reinvents herself as the Golden Lady: society's leading light, thebeautiful and witty life of the party. It's all a façade of course-onethat protects her from another intimate disloyalty. When her old friend, Lieutenant Jackson Fletcher, returns to London, he isdetermined to rediscover the true and trusting Sarah he once knew. It'll take more than a kiss and a promise. It might even call for an innocent and necessary deception.

Then Jackson is enlisted to help capture the leadsuspect in a murder-- a man who happens to be Sarah's most ardent suitor. Jack must continue the deception, and weathering this newest andgravest betrayal will be Sarah's ultimate test. But as Jack's passionfor her grows, he must also reveal his own secrets. And as the killerturns his attention to his pursuers, more than love and trust is put atrisk.